The Devonshire Association's Botany Section - studying and enjoying the county's wild plants, lichens and fungi.
Devon
Joined October 2014
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Bright orange, mealy fruits of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) seen growing near Sidmouth, Devon today 🧡 #Wildflowers @BSBIbotany @DABotany
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Sharp-leaved Fluellen (Kickxia elatine), Sand Toadflax (Linaria arenaria), Snapdragon (Antirrhinum) and Round-leaved Fluellen (K. spuria) in Devon and Dorset @BSBIbotany @DABotany 💛💚
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Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris), Marsh Fragrant Orchid (Gymnadenia densiflora) & the star of the show Autumn Lady’s Tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) 🤍 thanks to @HardingRogerC for showing me these orchids at Braunton Burrows today 🙏 @BSBIbotany @DABotany @ukorchids
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One I’ve wanted to see for a while - White Horehound (Marrubium vulgare). A scarce native in the south it’s a tomentose plant with 10 distinctive hooked calyx teeth 🤍💚 @BSBIbotany #BrauntonBurrows #WildFlowers @DABotany
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Regeneration of #mossy landscapes on #Dartmoor
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Some delicate subtlety from rushes, grasses and sedges for #WildflowerHour
ALT Field Wood-rush
ALT Hare's-tail (& Green-veined White)
ALT Common Spike-rush
ALT False Fox-sedge
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Dartmoor's Blanket Bogs anewnatureblog.com/2023/04/1… via @MilesKing10
A fab price of evidence based explanation. Please share. @DABotany
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From the heart of a temperate rainforest in Dartmoor, Dr Alison Smith explains why these woodlands are extraordinary - and desperately need our help. Donate to our appeal ➡️ bit.ly/3KhPOP6
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Had a great time delivering a lichen event last month for the #ExmouthTreeProject in Phaer Park. Here, we recorded two IUCN red listed species in this urban parkland, Parmelina carporrhizans (top) on ash & Physcia tribacioides (bottom) on copper beech. Who would have thought it!
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The absolute stunner that is Alyxoria (Opegrapha) subelevata (IUCN Endangered) growing on the strikingly red sandstone cliffs along the Teign Estuary (#Devon). At this site, the black squiggly, densely pruinose fruits can only be accessed at low tide. Thanks for the intro Nicola!
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With most of the Warren a parched golden yellow the #Coastalplants are still providing some colour. Sea Holly, Rock Samphire (& Black Mining Bee Andrena pilipes), Wild Carrot (with Kiefferia pericarpilcola galls) and from 2021 a rayless Sea Aster var. flosculosus #WildflowerHour
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Found 2 new ones for my list on the cliffs around Torquay. Sea Plantain, Plantago maritima and Common Sea Lavender, Limonium vulgare. @DABotany @BSBIbotany
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Vibrant but rare Deptford Pink doing well on a road verge in Buckfastleigh, Devon #wildflowerhour @JWentomologist @speciesrecovery
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Black Medick pod (and mucronate tip on leaves - that almost read microwave tip...) for #wildflowerhour @DABotany
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The Warren may be small compared to other sand dune systems but still has a wide variety of special species to showcase #WorldSandDuneDay during #WildflowerHour Hound’s-tongue on the fixed, Sea Spurge on the embryo, Sea Bindweed on the mobile & Marsh Helleborine from the slacks.
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Very excited that @LouisaCasson & I have found rare Hazel Gloves fungus growing on both hazels & blackthorns at Orley Common in Devon! Big thanks @BotanyCornwall for suggesting looking for it here - it’s thriving. A rainforest indicator, this is the furthest east I’ve seen it.
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While failing to see Thrift Clearwing in South Devon I came across this Yarrow Broomrape which I'm told is a good find. @DABotany Thanks to @GavinMaclean3 for Id.
